For many, myself included, it’s been a rough couple of weeks. And with the Thanksgiving holiday coming soon, it’s obviously time to think about Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa and Festivus so we can be sure to maximize our stress at every given moment. It’s been a while since I went all out silly, so I decided […]

My friend Robin Farmanfarmaian invited me to an event called Reimagining Humans last week. I could easily produce a list of humans I would like to reimagine as living in a galaxy far, far away or as ground squirrels; alas, that wasn’t the focus of this particular event. Produced by Arc Fusion, which is dedicated […]

Below is a reprise of a post I wrote in May 2013. I was planning to write something new for this week but, frankly, got totally distracted by two things: the SF Giants run for a 2016 Major League Baseball Championship and the trials and tribulations of the current Presidential election. I know, it’s like […]

The U.S. healthcare system was designed primarily based on our understanding of the biological and social needs of white men. Of course, our current experience tells us that society is far more complex and that the system must recognize and respond to a diversity of gender, culture, language and other biopsychosocial factors to be truly […]

Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time passing? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone, long time ago? Where have all the consumer digital health tech investors gone? Consumers have ignored them everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? -Peter, Paul and Mary, as edited by me […]

While determining what to do with college and her career, Jessica Rousset struggled to decide – go with the right brain and be an artist or go with the left brain and pursue engineering. In a way she has managed to do both, though her current canvas is companies and her palette is the health […]

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: […]

Finally, an effective medical use for drones. There has been a lot of talk about how to make drones useful in the medical realm. One of the most-reported uses is the real-time transport of defibrillators to places where patients are having heart attacks. There is much talk of the promise of drones in disaster relief […]

So much emphasis has been placed on fitness and wearables over the last five years and much has been made of whether these trackers can translate to better health or are just there to make people feel a sense of accomplishment. In their quest to be taken seriously, most of the focus has been on […]

I just got back from the trip of a lifetime: an African safari. I had the good fortune to visit South Africa (both Cape Town/Cape of Good Hope and Krueger National Park) as well as the Zimbabwe side of Victoria Falls. Wow. If you have done it, you know what I mean. If you haven’t, […]

About Lisa

Lisa Suennen is a venture capital investor and the managing partner of Venture Valkyrie, LLC, which publishes the Venture Valkyrie blog and co-produces the Tech Tonics podcast. She is also co-founder of CSweetener, a women's healthcare mentoring organization.